This App is a Light Meter vs Minimal Light Meter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
This App is a Light Meter
This app transforms your phone into a light meter for pinhole photography. It helps calculate precise exposure times and includes a timer and inverter for developing your negatives.
- Light meter for pinhole cameras
- Calculates exposure time
- Integrated timer
- Negative inverter
- Works with any pinhole camera
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Take the guesswork out of calculating your pinhole camera’s exposure time by using your phone or tablet as a light meter. The meter is designed to work with any pinhole camera, and its particularly well suited for Kelli Anderson’s ‘This Book is a Camera.’ Includes a timer to count down every second to your ideal exposure, and an inverter to reveal the final image of your pinhole negative.
Minimal Light Meter
This app offers precise light metering with a streamlined interface and a dimmable camera view. It allows for fully customizable ISO settings, ensuring accuracy with non-standard film stocks.
- Accurate light metering
- Intuitive user interface
- Dimmable camera view
- Custom ISO settings
- Support for non-standard ISO
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It provides accurate light metering with an intuitive UI and a dimmable camera view to focus only on what's important. Additionally, it supports a fully custom ISO setting so you can be confident working with non-standard ISO ratings on old or expired film stocks.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: This App is a Light Meter at Free against Minimal Light Meter's $0.99. This App is a Light Meter also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 19 months) and ratings volume (13 vs 2). Minimal Light Meter's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.1) and review sentiment (100% vs 78%). On ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
This App is a Light Meter is free to download; Minimal Light Meter costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Minimal Light Meter holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: This App is a Light Meter has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of This App is a Light Meter's written reviews are positive against 100% of Minimal Light Meter's.
This App is a Light Meter ships an update every 3 months, Minimal Light Meter every 19 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | This App is a Light Meter | Minimal Light Meter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.1 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 19 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Oak Studios, LLC | Jack Kroll |
Customer experience
This App is a Light Meter
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In-app purchases
This App is a Light Meter
No in-app purchases
Minimal Light Meter
No in-app purchases
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